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Thursday, August 14, 2014

VOA Radiogram Schedule, August 16-17

Hello
friends,

VOA Radiogram this weekend will
include news about a new trans-Pacific undersea cable, and about the closing of
the VOA Greek Service after 72 years on the air. There will be a news item in
Greek, so have the UTF-8 character set on Fldigi.

Here is the lineup for VOA
Radiogram, program 72, 16-17 August 2014 (MFSK32):

The VOA Mandarin digital text
tests resume today. Instead of punching through the co-channel interference
using the narrow bandwidth of MFSK16, the tones will now be dispersed across the
shortwave broadcast channel with Olivia 32-2000 centered on 1500 Hz. Under Op
Mode, this will require an Olivia custom setting -- bandwidth: 2000 Hz; tones:
32

These videos of VOA Mandarin
MFSK16 versus the co-channel interference were made by T.W. in Shimane
Prefecture, Japan. Most of the voices and music you hear are Chinese domestic
radio. VOA is in the background until the MFSK16 starts…

The Mighty
KBC will transmit a minute of MFSK64
Saturday at about 1130 UTC on 6095 kHz and Sunday at about 0130 UTC (Saturday
9:30 pm EDT) on 9925 kHz. Both frequencies are via Germany. Send reports for
these transmissions to themightykbc@gmail.com
.

Thanks for your reports for
last weekend’s VOA Radiogram and for the VOA Mandarin text transmissions over
the past few days. I will answer them soon.